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Is there still a place for the conservative treatment of idiopathic scoliosis in children and adolescents?

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In the existing literature, studies on this subject are not always consistent; hence the results of the orthopaedic treatment in scoliosis are difficult to interpret. Actually, the main difficulty lies in the insufficiency of available data on the features of the treated cases of scoliosis: few or no clinical data recorded at the beginning of the treatment and over the whole follow-up period, especially with regard to the evaluation of hump deformity, the measurement of frontal and sagittal tilt angle, changes of ventilatory capacity, etc., bone age at the start and at the end of the treatment, and to the known extent of the scoliosis.

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Jean-Claude Bernard earned his MD in medicine from the University of Lyon I in 1986. He has gained several qualifications throughout his career, including the French National Specialty Diploma in Biology and Sports Medicine, as well as in Biomechanics of the Locomotor System, Kinesiology (1985) and Human Biology, General Anatomy and Organogenesis in 1986.

He also owns several academic and interacademic diplomas in the field of physical education and rehabilitation of the spine. He served as an intern in the Department of Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, Centre des Massues, Lyon (France) from 1983 to 1985, where he would become in 1994 Head of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the children and adolescents unit, for which he is currently also President of the Medical Board.

Jean-Claude Bernard is also actively involved in university teaching with a focus on sports medicine and disability, his present appointments, include, among the others, teaching at the School of Physical Therapy in Lyon.

He has contributed over 50 papers published in specialised journals and a number of communications presented at national and international congresses and symposia, as well as jointly organising scientific meetings, notably on the therapeutic role of botulinum toxin for lower limb splasticity in children with cerebral palsy. He is an active member of several national scientific societies such as SOFMER (Société Française de Médecine de Rééducation et Réadaptation Fonctionnelles) and GES (Groupe d’Etudes de la Scoliose).

Jean-Claude Bernard is copy editor of the journal Résonances Européennes du Rachis and member of the Scientific Board of Le Journal de l’Orthopédie.

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Bernard, JC. Is there still a place for the conservative treatment of idiopathic scoliosis in children and adolescents?. ArgoSpine News J 21, 113–118 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12240-009-0022-2

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